> And i tell pretty much anyone who wants to listen that they should just implement the proto on their own if thats rhe only reason for a libsystemd dep otherwise.

That's what I think too. Do the relevant docs point this out too? Ages ago they didn't. I think we should try to avoid that people just google "implement systemd notify daemon" and end up on a page that says "link to libsystemd and call sd_notify()".